Probably stress tests are being run in the light of recent block limit discussion, but as people have said, when price goes up, normally transactions do too.

As for shorena's post, I find it really disturbing that 6k unconfirmed transactions waiting isn't that much of a number... I wasn't aware that this number was so high at times. I'm all in favor of rising block size limit, but these high numbers still shock me. Just goes on showing that people who don't want to raise the block limit aren't really thinking clearly...

We need that block size change ASAP. We're a "small player", for now. Imagine when Bitcoin approaches most people and people start using it more frequently and for more things... We definitely don't want to have hundreds of thousands of transactions just waiting hours for one confirmation.

Spikes like this are the exact reason for the need of increasing the size earlier than waiting. I do wonder why there are so many transactions going about today though.